Dec. 19, 2006 (CWNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) will extend full communion to the new Coptic Catholic Patriarch Antonios Naguib today in a ceremony held at the Roman basilica of St. Paul-outside-the-Walls.
The Holy Father, who met with the newly elected Coptic Catholic patriarch on December 15, appointed Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, as his official representative at the ceremony confirming ecclesial communion.
Patriarch Antonios Naguib was elected by the Coptic synod in March of this year to succeed the retiring Patriarch Stephanos II Ghattas as Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, and leader of the Coptic Catholic Church. Following the usual practice of the Eastern churches in communion with the Holy See, he traveled to Rome this week to confirm that communion.
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This “full communion” does not signify the reunification of the Coptic Patriarchate of Alexandria with Rome, as if a break had occurred. It is a mere formality: the Catholic Coptic Patriarchs of Alexandria have been in union with Rome for centuries.
This ritual ceremony is merely the pro forma recognition by the Pope of Rome of the Coptic synod’s recent election of a new patriarch. Nothing more.
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